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Chapter 2

Elisabeth rushed to home as a fury, shutting the door behind her.
Her mother, scared by all that mess, ran to the dining room, and stared for a while at her daughter’s cross face.
She sat on the sofa, her eyes staring at the flames of the mantelpiece.

Catherine: You father has the same look when he’s angry. Did the picnic go bad? Did you and Juliet argue?
Elisabeth: No, I’m not angry. Well, yes, I am. And it’s all that stupid and cocky boy’s fault!
Catherine: Boy? What boy?

Elisabeth told her mother about the afternoon and the meeting with the two boys. After a moment of silence, Catherine looked at her daughter with a sweet smile.

Catherine: So, how is this William?
Elisabeth: He’s rude, totally crazy, and..
Catherine: and..
Elisabeth: with two wonderful blue eyes and a beautiful smile- the young girl said almost dreamy- but he remains a fool!- she almost yelled.

Her mother smiled, passing a hand on her face.
Catherine: I hope I’ll meet soon this William, about time that you started to find a fiancé.
Elisabeth: Mom, so you’re not listening to me. I hate him, I can’t stand him, and I surely don’t want him as my fiancé.
Catherine: Sweet child of mine, I listened to you very well, but what you said it’s not what you showed. First of all, I know my daughter’s look. Second, I have had the same behavior when I met your father, and finally, remember, sometimes hate and love go hand in hand.

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Elisabeth went sleep kind of soon that night, and her dreams came.
Her young beloved appeared that night, too, she didn’t see his face, but she recognized two wonderful blue eyes. They talked and walked along together.
Before Elisabeth woke up, the young man got closer and gave a sweet kiss on her lips, and then he whispered: “ I want to find out if there’s an ‘ us ‘ between you and me “.
Elisabeth startled awake, taking a look around and realizing upset that she was in her room and there wasn’t anyone beside her.

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After having breakfast, she went to Juliet to go to the market square, and during the travel she told her about the dream.
Juliet: And how was the kiss?
Elisabeth: Very sweet. I had never felt something like that.
Juliet: Fine, let’s look for him, he could be anyone. Have you thought about the baker?
Elisabeth: Eww! But he’s almost twenty years older than me! Besides, my beloved is romantic, gentle and he’s got wonderful blue eyes..
Juliet: Blue eyes just like William? I wonder how those blue eyes appeared to your ghost, just after the meeting we have had yesterday…- Juliet said with a knowing smile.
Elisabeth: Don’t be silly. He’s different from my love, and his eyes are different. If he was here right now I could confirm that to you, I remember them pretty well..

And as she was saying that she turned all of the sudden, crashing with someone and falling on the ground.
Elisabeth: I’m so sorry, I hadn’t seen you..

And she looked up to the young man that was helping her to get up.
William: We can’t always meet this way.

Elisabeth let him help her, but she stayed still , staring at his eyes.
Juliet got her off that awkward situation.

Juliet: Good morning, William. Please, forgive my friend, she hadn’t slept well tonight, so she remains still staring at people sometimes. Elisabeth, you can leave William’s hand, now, I think he needs it.

Elisabeth came back to reality, visibly embarrassed and she tried not to show up badly.
Elisabeth: Good morning, William, I’m sorry but the fall made me dizzy, so I remained still waiting for it to fade out. I didn’t want to stare at you, really, I wasn’t even looking at you.
William: Don’t worry, Elisabeth, it’s a honor to be stared by you. Are you ok, now?
Elisabeth: I’m fine, thanks. Is Leonard, your friend, here with you?
William: Yes, he’s talking with a person right now.

After a while Leonard showed up, grinning enthused.
Leonard: William, I have beautiful news. My aunt Sophie invited us at her house, and there will be lots of people. We just need to ladies to go with us there.

Then, Leonard stopped and looked at the two young girls that were there.
Leonard: Oh, but it’s you, it’s so nice to meet you again, I hadn’t recognized you immediately.

An idea came to his mind and he got enlightened.
Leonard: Ladies, would you be so gentle to accept out invitation to a dance? Sure, if you aren’t busy! You know, we are new here. An affiliates of mine invited us, but we don’t know anyone here, anyone but you two. We would be very honored to have you as our ladies for the night. It will be fun.
Juliet: Alright! It’s been a while since we have gone to a dance. We would go with you more than willingly, right, Elisabeth?
Elisabeth: Honestly, I don’t know.. it depends .. when would it take place?
Leonard: Tonight, maybe we warned you too late..
Juliet: It’s perfect. What time?
Leonard: It’s on 8 p.m. We’d go catch you, but we don’t know where you live!
Juliet: Walk us home, then, so you’ll know where we live.
Leonard: Perfect. Let’s go!

Leonard linked arms with Juliet and they walked home. Elisabeth and William remained silent for a while.
William: Why have I got the feeling that they had decided for us?
Elisabeth: Because they actually did! And then, they say we are the crazy ones!

They smiled to each other and they started walking to reach their friends that were plotting something.

Leonard: You know, my dear Juliet, William is very shy and sometimes he doesn’t exactly act as a gentleman, and he risks to lose precious occasions.
I think that he likes your friend Elisabeth pretty much, but he wouldn’t ever admit that, he’d rather act rudely with her.
Juliet: That’s the same Elisabeth does, she is very sweet, but if she got scared or she felt ‘ attacked ‘ she is on the defensive and she doesn’t let anyone get closer.
Anyway, I guess that Elisabeth likes William, too. But what can we do? If they suspect that we are interfering we’ll be in trouble.
Leonard: But we aren’t interfering! We’ll just try to get them to know each other better.
Juliet: We are terrible, but I guess this could work. After all, we are doing that just for them.

They smiled to each other and they stopped in front of Elisabeth’s house, and after a while the other two reached them.
Elisabeth: So, did you agree?
Juliet: Yes, we all meet here at 7:30 p.m.

They remained silent for a while, and after an understanding gaze between Leonard and Juliet, the two girls headed towards the door.
William: See you tonight, then. Have a nice day.
Elisabeth: See you tonight.

They looked at each other for a while, and then they turned to their respective friends.
William and Leonard left, and the two young women got in the house smiling.

TBC





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